106th United States Congress
United States Capitol (2002)
Session:	January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2001
President of the Senate:	Al Gore
President pro tempore of the Senate:	Strom Thurmond
Speaker of the House:	Newt Gingrich
Members:	435 Representatives 100 Senators 5 Territorial Representatives
House Majority:	Republican
Senate Majority:	Republican

The One Hundred Sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1999 to January 3, 2001, during the last two years of the second administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Dates of sessions

January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2001

• First session: January 6, 1999 – November 22, 1999
• Second session: January 24, 2000 – December 15, 2000

Previous congress: 105th Congress • Next congress: 107th Congress

Major events

• January 7, 1999 — February 12, 1999: Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton
• March 29, 1999 — Dow Jones Industrial Average ended above 10,000 for the first time.
• April 20, 1999 — Columbine High School massacre
• October 13, 1999 — Senate rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• December 31, 1999: Y2K bug
• April 3, 2000 — United States v. Microsoft: Federal court held Microsoft liable for anti-trust violations
• November–December 2000: Election of George W. Bush

Major Legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation

• May 21, 1999 — Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Kosovo operations), Pub.L. 106-31, 113 Stat. 57
• November 12, 1999 — Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub.L. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338
• November 29, 1999 — American Inventors Protection Act (including Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act), Pub.L. 106-113, 113 Stat. 1536, 15 U.S.C. § 1051
• May 18, 2000 — African Growth and Opportunity Act, Pub.L. 106-200, 114 Stat. 251
• June 30, 2000 — Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, Pub.L. 106-229, 114 Stat. 464
• September 22, 2000 — Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Pub.L. 106-274, 114 Stat. 803, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc
• October 30, 2000 — Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Pub.L. 106-390, 114 Stat. 1552
• October 30, 2000 — Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Pub.L. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763A, 7 U.S.C. § 1 (as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001)

Party summary

Senate

Membership changed with two deaths.

House of Representatives

Officers

Senate

House of Representatives

Members

Senate

Senators' party membership by state.

See also: Category: United States Senators

See also: Category: United States Congressional Delegations by state

House of Representatives

80.1-100% Republican	80.1-100% Democratic
60.1-80% Republican	60.1-80% Democratic
House seats by party holding plurality in state

See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives and Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide at-large, are preceded by an "At Large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.